Opinion

St. Lawrence Neighborhood dog owners are a sociable bunch and many congregate on the playground and baseball field in Crombie Park bounded by Frederick, The Esplanade and Sherbourne. Their dogs romp and play and poop. Most local dog owners pick ...

John Sewell – It’s not clear exactly who is in charge of how the Toronto Police Service delivers policing. Legislation says it is the Toronto Police Services Board which has that responsibility, but recent practise shows that the board is merely ...

Stig Harvor – To his credit, our new mayor, John Tory, is energetic and eloquent, almost too profusely. Does he get enough sleep? He came to work at city hall so early the morning after his election victory that his ...

Frank Touby — I was shocked to read of Link (Eric Linkord) Byfield’s recent death by cancer. He was Editor-in-Chief of Alberta Report newsmagazine when I spent a summer working there in 1991 in order to decide whether to move to ...

Taxes are continuing to be a hot topic of public debate. Our provincial and city elections last year prominently featured taxes. This new year we are facing an important federal election on Oct. 19—unless Harper breaks his Canadian Election Act ...

Frank Touby — We’ve all heard the complaints about the “mainstream media” in the U.S. twisting their reportage to reflect the government’s positions on various events. I’ve always taken it for granted that Toronto’s mainstream media doesn’t do that. Certainly ...

David Gareau — Amidst what can only be described as a malicious and tactical move, the St. Lawrence Market has announced it is evicting as many as 40 craft vendors as part of its plans for re-development of the Market’s north ...

Stig Harvor – Private enterprise is incapable of providing affordable housing for many people. There is no profit in it. No profit, no housing. Public enterprise is forced to step into the void. When will many of our politicians face this ...

Chris Moise – As we now know, the Harper Conservative government has decided to forge ahead with an income-splitting scheme in order to provide “tax relief for families.” Or so Harper would have us believe. Just this past February, Harper’s former ...

John Sewell – When John Tory walks through the doors into the mayor’s office, will he notice the elephants in the room? Peering through the windows of the office during the recent election campaign he apparently didn’t spot them, but maybe ...